Family plans old-school Thanksgiving

Mowry clan pays homage to America's forefathers

3:10 AM,
Nov. 28, 2013

Written by

Anne Miller
News Journal correspondent

When Carol Mowry went shopping for Thanksgiving Day dinner, she didn't have to go far. She gathered her menu items from the freezer and pantry because much of it was home-grown.

There will be corn, carrots, green beans, apples and pumpkins picked from the farm. But the most important item on the menu was not cooperative. Mowry's son, Eric, has been raising a turkey to put on the Thanksgiving table. They decided this Tom was too scrawny to serve, so they are trying to fatten him up for Christmas dinner.

Their store-bought turkey will be deep-fried on the Mowry farm in front of a little cabin that ...